The haters-gonna-hate philosophy in Silicon Valley is starting to become a problem.
There's a lot of luck involved in making a startup, and startups can fail for any number of reasons that no data can predict. The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.
>>The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.
That is dangerous to any naive person in the world in any area of work. Doing your best, means your boss will look at you like a threat that you might take their job, or some political cartel in a big company will treat you like a pawn who does all their work, while their yes men reap benefits.
Start ups are only a area of work where the heart burn is amplified because of a lot of work is done in a very short period of time.
There's a lot of luck involved in making a startup, and startups can fail for any number of reasons that no data can predict. The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.